Salt Lake Herald | 1896-02-14 | Page 1 | Under the Carey Act

J UNDER THE CAREY ACT lug Holding Acquired By Buffalo Bill and Associates Special to The Herald CHEYENNE Wy Feb 13 Colonel W F Cody Buffalo Bill reached here today I 1 from Washington and had an interview with Governor Richards in reference to the final arrangement for acquiring title under the Carey act of 74000 acres of which Cody land in the Big Horn Basin and his associates will put under irrigation irriga-tion and colonize The interior department depart-ment has approVed the selection and the I work of building canals which was commenced com-menced last summer will now be pushed I vigorously Colonel Cody says the new I I line of railroad which it is proposed to build from North Platte into Central Wyoming will 0 built